I wish I’d discovered this method years ago. Listen, when you’re at the beach and planning to go for a swim, try this way to get yourself into the water. Wade in until the water is up to your hips or your waist. Stretch your arms out for balance, and spin around and around and [...]
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The Daily News published an article about the heat and firefighters’ concerns.. The article mentions that: One lightning bolt did strike Gabriola Island but didn’t ignite a fire, said a spokeswoman with the Coastal Fire Centre in Parksville. Um, how do they know? [The article quoted above is no longer available on the newspaper's website.]
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The Vancouver Sun has an article about Douglas Walker, who makes fountains out of old musical instruments. Note this part: His biggest work, a 25-foot sculpture called Symphony for Flying Pigs, was built as the centrepiece for a 100-foot pond on a farm on Gabriola Island. Spraying water in all directions, the fountain is a [...]
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Ahem. You Gabriola people who love heat? I don’t know how you function in marrow-melting temperatures like this. I sit around saying bad words and wind up doing absurd things to stay cool. If you see me in the woods these days, you’ll think I look like a suicide bomber. This is because I wear [...]
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We are in raspberry heaven here, with fresh Gabriola raspberries and bliss, bliss, bliss. This is what’s for dessert tonight: Raspberry Buttermilk Cake. It’s scrumptious.
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You’re sure to see articles about this topic, and summaries of the results, too. But wouldn’t you rather read the report for yourself? Here it is, on the Ferry Advisory Committee section of gabriola.org: Gabriola Survey, Final Report, July 2, 2009. It’s a .pdf file.
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There’s an article about the Gabriola Commons in the Nanaimo Daily News today: Shared-property plans attracting more attention. Gabriola Island residents are turning a former goat farm into a community-owned centre, providing artists with a performance venue, hungry people with meals and seniors with hope that they might not have to move away from their [...]
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Suppose a post on this blog interests you, and you’d like to follow comments other people make about it. You could check the individual post page every day to see if there are new comments, but who has the time or energy for that? Sometimes the most fascinating comments are posted months later. There are [...]
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You know we’ve been working on our garden. You might have guessed that I’m seriously interested in native plants, and quite concerned about invasive plants on Gabriola. My plan is to eradicate all traces of invasive plants from our yard, and encourage lots of native plants. It’s been going pretty well, or so I thought. [...]
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